fruit sugar (frotshug"ar)

Same as levulose. fruit-tree (fröt'trē), n. A tree cultivated for its fruit, or a tree whose principal value consists in the fruit it produces, as the cherry-tree, apple tree, or pear-tree. Bronze Fruit-pigeon (Carpophaga ane a). And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and posNeh. ix. 25. se ed vineyards and olive yards, and fruit trees in abundance. By yonder ble ed moon I swear, That tips with silver all these fruit - tree tops. Shak., R. and J., ii. 2. fruit-trencher1 (fröt'trencher), n. A small wooden tray, answering the purpose of a de ert-plate, formerly used for fruit and the like. It was often richly painted with ornamental designs and inscriptions, mottoes, etc. fruit-trencher2t, n. One who makes trenches or digs in an orchard. This is a piece of sapience not worth the brain of a Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. fruit-trencher.e fruit-worm (fröt'wėrm), n. The larva or grub of some insect that injures fruit. - Gooseberry fruit-worm, the larva of Dakruma convolutella, a phycid moth which lays its eggs on young gooseberry bushes. The pale-green and very active larva feeds upon the fruit, often fastening several berries together; it cocoon on the ground, transforms to a pupa within a silken cocoon and hibernates in this condition. There being but one annual generation, the best remedies are hand-picking, and burning the leaves and rubbish under the bushes in winter. See cut under Dakruma. - Orange fruit-worm, Trypeta ludens, the grub of a dipterous fly of Mexico, or Ceratitis citriperda, another insect of the same family, which attacks oranges in Madeira.